Background I learned that in 2017, there was a presentation about the FOIA, for training purposes, that was given by Jennifer Black at the IRS. In May of 2018, I filed a FOIA request for all records relating to this presentation, including all training material, emails, etc. that related to the program. In late April of 2019, the IRS provided the below material. Document Archive 2017 FOIA Training Presentation by Jennifer Black at the IRS [24 Pages, 7.9MB]
Author: John Greenewald
Background The below document was obtained from the United States Air Force, under FOIA Case 2019-02596-F. It was digitized from microfilm, therefore, is slightly hard to read (but still very much legible.) It is archived here for reference. Document Archive Space Handbook: Astronautics and its Application, Circa 1959 [260 Pages, 42.5MB]
Background When the United States began considering a piloted voyage to the moon, an enormous number of unknowns about strategies, techniques, and equipment existed. Some people began wondering how a landing maneuver might be performed on the lunar surface. From the beginning of the age of flight, landing has been among the most challenging of flight maneuvers. Touching down smoothly has been the aim of pilots throughout the first century of flight. Designers have sought the optimum aircraft configuration for landing. Engineers have sought the optimum sensors and instruments for best providing the pilot with the information needed to perform…
Originally Published May 2, 2019 As the Navy sends out a statement this week that any new “UFO” reports relating to their new guidelines will likely remain a secret; the intelligence community continues to “lose” UFO related documents from our past. Nearly two years ago, I filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the re-evaluation of a one page document, back from 1952, in hopes more of the record could be released. The MDR process requires an agency to review a classified document, either previously released or not, and re-issue a copy of…
Background Between Sputnik’s launching in October 1957 and the lunar landing in July 1969 America sponsored five human spaceflight projects. NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo were well publicized and to varying degrees Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson used them as tools for garnering international prestige in the cold war competition with the Soviet Union. However, Dynasoar and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) of the DoD were largely classified and fundamentally oriented toward the military mission of reconnaissance. This study examines the NASA-DoD relationship with a special emphasis on these two sets of projects by…